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MOGLAKATCK. The Micmac name of L'Ardoise, on the south coast of Cape 

 Breton, according to Rand, who gives it, along with the preceding, as MOGLAK- 

 ATCK, without meaning {Micmac- English Dictionary, 185). Its form, and the 

 association with the preceding word, makes it seem most probable that it is an 

 abbreviated diminutive of the latter, the TC, equivalent in the Dictionary to CH, 

 representing an abbreviated CHEECH, meaning LITTLE. Thus the word would 

 mean LITTLE MOGLACADIE, in distinction from the main MOGLACADIE, 

 which is West Bay, not far distant. 



The full form of MOGULAWEECH occurs in another Acadian place-name, but 

 with a different termination, viz. MOGULAWIJIK, meaning MULTITUDES OF 

 BRANT, the Micmac name for Port Hill, an arm of Cascumpec Harbour in Prince 

 Edward Island (Rand, Micmac-English Dictionary, 185). The termination here is 

 WE-IK, the possessive and locative, precisely as in case of Magaguadavic earlier 

 considered {these Transactions, V, 1911, ii, 187). 



Mooselookmeguntic. 



The name of a Lake of the Rangely group near the head of the Androscoggin 

 River in western Maine. The first occurrence that I have found of the word is upon 

 Purdy's Map of Cabotia, of 1814, which has MOOSETUCMAGINTIC, while 

 Greenleaf the next year, on his Map of Maine, has MOOSETOCMAGUNTIC. 

 The earliest use of the L instead of the first T that I have found is on Greenleaf's 

 Map of 1842, though undoubtedly it occurs much earlier; and since that time the L 

 has prevailed down to the present. The spelling at the head of this note is that 

 adopted by the United States Geographic Board. 



Two explanations of the word have been published. One, cited in Douglas- 

 Lithgow's Dictionary of American Indian Names, is without authority or analysis, 

 "where the hunters watch the moose by night." The second is contained in Farrar's 

 Illustrated Guide Book to the Androscoggin Lakes, 1892, 161, and represents one of 

 those impossible local interpretations supposed to arise from the expression of a 

 hunter who saw a "moose, took my gun, tick," he was dead etc., one of the same 

 freak type of which many examples have been cited in these Transactions, XII, 

 1906, ii, 6, but which are really no worse than some of the explanations which have 

 been published pretentiously as etymologically authoritative. 



The latter part of the word seems to ally it with MEGANTIC, earlier discussed 

 (page 401), but I am informed by a local guide that no Lake Trout (Togue) occur 

 there. The former part also, is still obscure. The modern spelling would seem to ally 

 it with MOOSELEUK, a branch of the Aroostook, which Hubbard defines as 

 MOOSE PLACE {Woods and Lakes of Maine, 203), or with MOOSILAUKE, 

 name of a mountain and river in New Hampshire; but, as above noted, the 

 present form of the word appears not to be aboriginal. Thorough search of the 

 early records should give forms to settle its origin, which, it seems reasonably sure, 

 will be found to involve the root -KONTE. 



Nahmakanta. 



The name of a Lake, and its outlet Stream, flowing into Pemadumcook Lake, 

 on the West Branch of Penobscot River, in Maine. The present pronunciation 

 seems to conform to the spelling, but the older local pronunciation is said to have 

 been NAHMAYKANTEE. 



The earliest use of the word I have found is on Greenleaf's Map of Maine of 1815, 

 which has the present form. It is NAH-ME-CAN-TE in Jackson's Second Report 

 on the Public Lands of Maine, 1838,20. Wilkinson's fine Map of New Brunswick of 



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